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Carbon dioxide, temperature, salinity, and other variables collected via surface underway survey from Volunteer Observing Ship FALSTAFF in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2002-02-26 to 2005-07-22 (NCEI Accession 0081036)

INVESTIGATORS:
Douglas W. R. Wallace - Dalhousie University; Institute of Oceanography
Arne Körtzinger ORCID logo - GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Tobias Steinhoff - GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany

PACKAGE DESCRIPTION: M/V Falstaff VOS Line data

CITE AS: Wallace, Douglas W. R.; Steinhoff, Tobias; Körtzinger, Arne (2011). Carbon dioxide, temperature, salinity, and other variables collected via surface underway survey from Volunteer Observing Ship FALSTAFF in the North Atlantic Ocean from 2002-02-26 to 2005-07-22 (NCEI Accession 0081036). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.3334/cdiac/otg.vos_falstaff_2010. Accessed [date].


DATA PACKAGES RELATED TO THIS ONE:
none;
IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION FOR THIS DATA PACKAGE:
NCEI ACCESSION: 0081036
NCEI DOI: https://doi.org/10.3334/cdiac/otg.vos_falstaff_2010
EXPOCODE: FALCO_01a; FALCO_01b; FALCO_02a; FAL_01-FAL_09; FAL_11-FAL_18;
CRUISE ID: FALCO_01a; FALCO_01b; FALCO_02a; FAL_01-FAL_09; FAL_11-FAL_18;
SECTION/LEG: Falstaff Line;

TYPES OF STUDY:
Surface underway;

TEMPORAL COVERAGE:
START DATE: 2002-02-26
END DATE: 2005-07-22

SPATIAL COVERAGE:
NORTH: 51.53
WEST: -78.66
EAST: -.97
SOUTH: 11.71

GEOGRAPHIC NAMES:
Atlantic Ocean;

PLATFORMS:
M/S Falstaff (ID: 77FF);

RESEARCH PROJECT(S):
none;


VARIABLES / PARAMETERS:

XCO2_AIR
Abbreviation: XCO2_AIR
Unit: PPM
Controlled vocabulary name: Partial pressure (or fugacity) of carbon dioxide - atmosphere
In-situ / Manipulation / Response variable: in-situ
FCO2_AIR
Abbreviation: FCO2_AIR
Unit: UATM
Controlled vocabulary name: Partial pressure (or fugacity) of carbon dioxide - atmosphere
In-situ / Manipulation / Response variable: in-situ
ATM_PRE
Abbreviation: ATM_PRE
Unit: HPA
Controlled vocabulary name: BAROMETRIC PRESSURE
In-situ / Manipulation / Response variable: in-situ
SST
Abbreviation: SST
Unit: DEG_C
Controlled vocabulary name: SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE
In-situ / Manipulation / Response variable: in-situ
SSS
Abbreviation: SSS
Controlled vocabulary name: SALINITY
In-situ / Manipulation / Response variable: in-situ
EQ_PRE
Abbreviation: EQ_PRE
Unit: HPA
In-situ / Manipulation / Response variable: in-situ
EQ_TMP
Abbreviation: EQ_TMP
Unit: DEG_C
In-situ / Manipulation / Response variable: in-situ
FCO2_WAT
Abbreviation: FCO2_WAT
Unit: UATM
Controlled vocabulary name: partial pressure of carbon dioxide - water
In-situ / Manipulation / Response variable: in-situ
PCO2_WAT
Abbreviation: PCO2_WAT
Unit: UATM
Controlled vocabulary name: partial pressure of carbon dioxide - water
In-situ / Manipulation / Response variable: in-situ
XCO2_WAT
Abbreviation: XCO2_WAT
Unit: PPM
Controlled vocabulary name: partial pressure of carbon dioxide - water
In-situ / Manipulation / Response variable: in-situ

PUBLICATIONS DESCRIBING THIS DATASET:
Lüger, H., Wallace, D. W. R., Körtzinger, A., and Nojiri, Y. (2004). The pCO2 varability in the midlatitude North Atlantic Ocean during a full annual cycle. Global Biochem. Cycles, 18, GB3023.
Pierrot, D., Neill, C., Sullivan, K., Castle, R., Wanninkhof, R., Lüger, H., Johannessen, T., Olsen, A., Feely, R. A., & Cosca, C. E. (2009). Recommendations for autonomous underway pCO2 measuring systems and data-reduction routines. Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 56(8-10), 512-522. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.12.005
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
none;
FUNDING AGENCY:

SUBMITTED BY: Alex Kozyr (Alex.Kozyr@noaa.gov)

SUBMISSION DATE: 2011-11-11